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'Kana' is a compound of kari (仮, 'borrowed; assumed; false') and na (名, 'name'), which eventually collapsed into kanna and ultimately 'kana'. [3]Today it is generally assumed that 'kana' were considered "false" kanji due to their purely phonetic nature, as opposed to mana which were "true" kanji used for their meanings.
A Japanese plane in use A Japanese cooper using a yariganna or spear-plane A yariganna or spear-plane in the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, Kobe. The Japanese plane or kanna (鉋) is a plane pulled towards the user rather than pushed in the manner of western style planes. They are made of hardwood, usually Japanese white or red oak. The ...
Kanna (カンナ), guitarist and vocalist from the rock band Bleach03; Kanna Arihara (栞菜, born 1993), Japanese pop singer and former member of Cute; Kanna Asakura (栞南, born 1997), Japanese mixed martial artist; Kanna Hashimoto (環奈, born 1999), Japanese idol singer; Kanna Hayashi (born 1999), assistant professor
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
Kanna, a 2007 Indian movie; Kanna Kamui, a main character from the Japanese anime/manga Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid; Cegléd water jug, Ceglédi kanna, or kanna, Hyngarian water vessel serving as Romani folk musical instrument
Kana (written: 佳奈, 香奈, 香菜, 可奈, 加奈, 加那, 華菜, 夏菜, 夏南, 果奈, かな in hiragana or カナ in katakana) is a feminine Japanese given ...
There were no small kana in the pre-reform system; thus, for example, きよ would be ambiguous between kiyo and kyo while かつた could be either katsuta or katta. The pronunciation of medial h-row kana as w-row kana in the pre-reform system does not extend to compound words; thus, にほん was pronounced nihon, not nion (via **niwon).
Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.